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Graduate Diploma in Creative Enterprise

Graduate Diploma in Creative Enterprise

Are you a graduate working in the creative sector who wants to further your creative, technical and entrepreneurial skills? The Graduate Diploma in Creative Enterprise is an innovative new programme that will advance your ability to lead and manage creative enterprise projects.

Programme overview

Advance your knowledge in an area of creative enterprise and develop your skills by collaborating on projects for real-life clients. Learn through a mixture of creative, technical and theoretical courses and build your capabilities in creative thinking, professional practice, storytelling, digital technology and communication.

Whether you want to specialise in game design, digital marketing, animation or more, you can define your own creative pathway through your choice of specialist electives. You’ll also explore an area of creative practice through a significant work integrated learning project, tailoring your studies to your career aspirations.

Highlights

Advance your creative, technical and entrepreneurial skills.

Developed with industry to deliver work ready graduates.

Gain invaluable experience working with real clients on live projects and build strong industry networks while you study.

Learn how to tell compelling stories, think creatively, collaborate across disciplines, develop a business plan and manage a budget.

Develop your practice by completing work integrated projects while you study.

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Admission requirements

For this programme, you will need the following:

1. A recognised degree, a professional qualification in a relevant discipline or the ability to demonstrate competencies equivalent to the above2. A minimum of 8 credits at NCEA Level 2 in English (4 in reading, 4 in writing) 3. You’ll be required to attend an interview or audition, submit a portfolio or a combination of all three – we’ll notify you of what is required4. You may be required to complete a medical declaration form5. If English is your second language, you are required to have one or more of the following:

Have achieved NCEA Level 3 and New Zealand University entrance

Be able to provide evidence you satisfy our criteria for existing English proficiency

Have achieved at least one English proficiency outcome in the last two years

Don’t meet the requirements? We also accept:

Provide sufficient evidence to be eligible for special or discretionary admission.

This course aims to provide students with an opportunity to collaborate with a group of people from a diverse range of disciplines for the purpose of solving and redefining problems outside of normal boundaries that culminate in a substantive creative enterprise project. This course unites prior learning related to the generalist study and specialist study from the whole programme for each student.

To engage students in modes of practice in accordance with established and/or experimental procedures and protocols appropriate to the creation, promotion and delivery of a creative enterprise project.
To extend students’ practical experience, skills and knowledge of principles and procedures within their chosen field of practice in order to research, communicate and execute creative propositions with authority and inventiveness.

To enable students to use classical and contemporary models of ethical decision- making to analyse typical media and organisational communication dilemmas. By the end of the course, students will have developed a broad understanding of the inherently ethical role played by organisations within society because of their communication of values to, and interactions with, a wide variety of audiences.

To enable an understanding of the theory and practice of public relations and its strategic importance as a key component of any organisation’s management decision making. Students will apply their knowledge to a range of real world settings, and plan and implement a public relations campaign.

To introduce students to the theoretical perspectives that describe, and may explain or predict, communication in organisations. Students will critically examine everyday organisational occurrences and experiences, and learn to manage communication to achieve a positive communication culture and climate.

To develop awareness of the internal and external information networks that contribute to the public image of an organisation. Students will evaluate the communication management requirements of those networks in a variety of stable, change and crisis situations.

To enable the students to understand, interpret and analyse contemporary issues affecting and involving the global media. This course provides a thematically organised, critical exploration of global political, economic, social and technological issues and interrogates the mediation of these events and issues by global actors. In a rapidly changing, media saturated world Global Media Issues provides a thoughtful and reflective examination of these processes of change, development and mediation.

This course will provide an opportunity for students to extend and broaden their knowledge, skills ahnd experience in the use of animation methodologies, principles and design. It will enable students to acquire knowledge and understanding of animation practice within broader practice-based and theoretical contexts. Project outcomes will draw upon student’s needs, interests and cultural backgrounds

This course aims to provide students with an opportunity to apply skills learned previously to design and develop a working game. Working in groups, students will undertake the entire process from development to implementation, working in an industry-relevant context.

To provide students with the ability to investigate and use advanced techniques that extend the standard software development environment so that the student is competent in approaches required in the development and deployment of software applications for mobile devices.

To interact effectively and professionally in creative partnership with creative production staff and production crews to realise production of original/selected documentary material. This course focuses on giving a hands-on experience to participants in workshop and classroom exercises.

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Please take this information as a guideline only. For example, you will often see a difference between these tuition fees and our estimate above. This is because there are a number of variables, such as the specific courses chosen within a programme.

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Key Information for Students

Entry requirements

Minimum requirements: A recognised degree, professional relevant qualification or ability to demonstrate equivalent competencies plus English language requirements and proof of work. Additional information may be required. Special and discretionary admission also accepted.